Cuentos y Libros (Mil y una noche)

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Autor: Carmen E. Lamas

Número de Páginas: 351

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and Latin American countries, peoples, and literatures, as they are currently understood. Instead, it reveals their fundamentally interdependent natures, politically, socially, historically, and aesthetically, thereby recognizing the degree of mutual imbrication of their peoples and literatures of the period. Largely archived in Spanish, it addresses concerns palpably felt within (and integral to) the US and beyond. English-language works also find a place on this continuum and have real implications for the political and cultural life of hispanophone and anglophone communities in the US. Moreover, the central role of Latina/o translations signal the global and the local nature of the continuum. For the Latino Continuum embeds layered and complex political and literary contexts and overlooked histories, situated as it is at the crossroads of both hemispheric and translatlantic currents of exchange often effaced by the logic of borders-national, cultural, religious, linguistic and...

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

Autor: John Morán González , Laura Lomas

Número de Páginas: 858

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

Autor: Anna Brickhouse

Número de Páginas: 343

This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse investigates interactions between US, Latin American and Caribbean literatures. Her many examples and case studies include the Mexican genealogies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the rewriting of Uncle Tom's Cabin by a Haitian dramatist, and a French Caribbean translation of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent linking Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. She argues for a new understanding of this most formative period of literary production in the United States as a 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.

La innovación retrógrada

Autor: Christopher Domínguez Michael

Número de Páginas: 566

La innovación retrógrada, es la primera parte de una historia de la literatura mexicana del siglo XIX, cuya esencia es colocar a esa recién bautizada como "literatura nacional", en 1836 por Guillermo Prieto y sus amigos, en la llamada Academia de Letrán, en el mapa de la literatura mundial. Esta obra, empieza de adelante para atrás, subrayando la idea que de nuestras letras tenía Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo en 1893, el principal crítico de la lengua. El propósito del autor releer de otra manera el "atraso" con el cual comienza nuestra literatura y relacionarlo con las tensiones literarias que atravesaban a todo el siglo XIX.

Hispanic Literature of the United States

Autor: Nicolás Kanellos

Número de Páginas: 326

Providing a detailed historical overview of Hispanic literature in the United States from the Spanish colonial period to the present, this extensive chronology provides the context within which such writers as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. Hispanic literature in the United States is covered from the Spanish colonial period to the present. A detailed historical overview and a separate survey of Hispanic drama provide researchers and general readers with indispensable information and insight into Hispanic literature. An extensive chronology traces the development of Hispanic literature and culture in the United States from 1492 to 2002, providing the context within which such Hispanic writers such as Sandra Cisneros, Rodolfo Anaya, and Oscar Hijuelos have worked. Topics include an overview and chronology of Hispanic literature in the United States, a who's who of Hispanic authors, significant trends, movements, and themes, publishing trends, an overview of Hispanic drama, adn the 100 essential Hispanic literary works. Biographical entries describe the careers, importance, and major works of notable Hispanic novelists, poets, and playwrights writing...

La rebelde

Autor: Leonor Villegas De MagnÑn

Número de Páginas: 308

La Rebelde marks the first printing of the original Spanish-language version of the memoir written by a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnon (1876-1955). Villegas de Magnon was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Diaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. She rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas de Magnon moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as an incisive editorialist in Laredo newspapers. In 1913, she founded La Cruz Blanca (The White Cross), a corps of nurses for the revolutionary forces active from the border region to Mexico City. Many women from both sides of the border risked their lives and left their families to support the revolution. Years later, however, when their participation remained unacknowledged and was running the risk of being forgotten, Villegas de Magnon decided to write her personal account of this history. With enthralling text and 22 pages of photos, La Rebelde examines the period from 1876 through 1920, documenting the...

Félix Varela Morales, exilio y obra religiosa

Autor: Ana Suárez Díaz

Número de Páginas: 216

Herencia

Autor: Nicolás Kanellos , Kenya Dworkin Y Méndez , Alejandra Balestra

Número de Páginas: 658

A major anthology of Hispanic writing in the U.S., ranging from the early Spanish explorers to the present day.

Timelines of American Literature

Autor: Cody Marrs , Christopher Hager

Número de Páginas: 361

A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature. It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessary—even illuminating—practice. In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periods—from 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of "modernism" if we imagine it stretching from 1865 to 1965 instead of 1890 to 1945? How does the captivity narrative change when we consider it as a contemporary, not just a "colonial," genre?...

Writing to Cuba

Autor: Rodrigo Lazo

Número de Páginas: 265

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence from Spain and alliance with or annexation to the United States. Drawing from rare materials archived in the United States and Havana, Rodrigo Lazo offers new readings of works by writers such as Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Clemente Zenea, Pedro Santacilia, and Miguel T. Tolon. Lazo argues that to understand these writers and their publications, we must move beyond nation-based models of literary study and consider their connections to both Cuba and the United States. Anchored by the publication of Spanish- and English-language newspapers in the United States, the transnational culture of writers Lazo calls los filibusteros went hand in hand with a long-standing economic flow between the countries and was spurred on by the writers' belief in the American promise of freedom and the hemispheric ambitions of the expansionist U.S. government. Analyzing how U.S. politicians, journalists,...

Recovering Hispanic Religious Thought and Practice of the United States

Autor: Nicolás Kanellos

Número de Páginas: 221

The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas has been well studied. Similarly, Hispanics around the world and in the United States have been characterized in scholarship and popular opinion by the dimensions of their predominant Catholic faith. To date, neither their diversity of faith nor their ethnic and racial diversity have been adequately addressed, thus contributing to a widely held perception of a monolithic culture with its own Catholic world view, a world view often categorized as obscurantist, mystical and anachronistic. Most important, the role of religion, in all of its diversity and historical evolution, in building Hispanic culture in the United States has not been adequately studied or understood. Today, because a corpus of Hispanic religious thought from across the ages in the United States has been reconstituted and there are scholars dedicated to understanding this thought and the experience it reveals, publication of this present volume has been made possible. The chapters of Recovering Hispanic Religious Thought and Practice...

Antología de la narrativa indigenista temprana (1848-1904)

Autor: Juan Carlos Orrego Arismendi

Número de Páginas: 95

El indigenismo literario es una corriente sobre la que no hay consenso crítico. Aunque suele rotularse de ese modo a las obras de ficción cuyos personajes principales son nativos americanos, hay quien pide que solo se haga con aquellas que proponen una reivindicación social de esos personajes. También sucede que se privilegia el subgénero de la novela realista del siglo xx , por más que resulte riesgoso descuidar otras formas y estéticas, y precisamente aquellas en las que, en otra época, floreció la expresión indigenista: el cuento, el cuadro de costumbres, la leyenda o la remembranza. El presente libro apuesta por una comprensión amplia del concepto de narrativa indigenista , y por eso, no solo pone los ojos en el siglo xix , sino que ensancha el espectro a varios géneros, además de la novela. Esta selección incorpora los nombres de Narciso Aréstegui, Eugenio Díaz Castro, Ricardo Palma, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Juan León Mera, Clorinda Matto de Turner y Alcides Arguedas.

Pioneros puertorriqueÐos en Nueva York 1917-1947

Autor: JoaquÕn ColÑn

Número de Páginas: 388

Joaquín Colón (1896-1964) was a Puerto Rican activist and writer who, in his later years, felt compelled to recount the history of the first large wave of Puerto Rican immigrants making a life for themselves in New York City. Here, published for the first time is the original Spanish-language manuscript he left behind, a document rich in detail and insight of the evocation of the previously unknown personalities who fought the struggles of labor and political organizing in the early century. The founder of important mutual aid societies, Hispanic political organizations and civic groups, Colón was an indefatigable fighter for Hispanic civic participation and suffrage. An early Hispanic activist in the Democratic Party of Brooklyn, Colón was a pioneer in organizing and motivating political action by Puerto Ricans, who were United States citizens, and in brokering their power for improvements in their lot as a national minority. Always at the center of community culture, Colón was an acclaimed speaker and a widely read columnist in Spanish-language newspapers, where he served as a public conscience writing under his own name, as well as under the pseudonyms of Tello Casiano,...

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

Autor: Virginia Sánchez Korrol , María Herrera-sobek

Número de Páginas: 465

Presents essays dealing with literature written by Hispanic Americans from the sixteenth century through 1960, evaluates individual authors, and examines the contributions of Latino authors in a multicultural, multilingual society.

Border Culture

Autor: Ilan Stavans

Número de Páginas: 233

The border between the United States and Mexico, despite attempts at containment, remains a vast and uniquely malleable yet indefinable region. With Border Culture, Ilan Stavans has collected essays representative of the tangled experiences and issues central to life between cultures. Divided into two sections, Border Culture covers topics essential to better understanding this often misunderstood region and state-of-mind. The first section, "Considerations," culls essays covering socio-economic and political topics illustrating the hyper reality of life and living on La Frontera. Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera. This enlightening and comprehensive collection will no doubt help readers better understand border culture.

Re-framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies

Autor: Winfried Fluck , Donald E. Pease , John Carlos Rowe

Número de Páginas: 472

What is the state of American studies in the twenty-first century?

Challenging US Foreign Policy

Autor: B. Sewell , S. Lucas

Número de Páginas: 313

Some categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as 'empire', 'decline', 'superpower', 'the Cold War' and 'the War on Terror' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This fresh new approach seeks to challenge these terms.

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero

Autor: Gordon M. Sayre

Número de Páginas: 368

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the...

Concierto barroco

Autor: Alejo Carpentier

Número de Páginas: 350

¿Es posible enjaular un sol? ¿Estaría en su sano juicio quien se propusiera como tarea irrenunciable meter en una jaula un astro de tan descomunal tamaño? Pues aunque, dicho así, parezca una pretensión inútil, alucinantemente desaforada y propia de un ensueño, Alejo Carpentier no dejaba de intentarlo una y otra vez a lo largo de su vida. En esta breve pieza titulada Concierto barroco el autor consiguió transmutar esa pretensión en un bazar novelístico de singulares trampantojos para hacernos soñar, incluso, que podemos escuchar con nuestros ojos lectores una perdida música callada y asistir, en novelesca fantasmagoría, a la representación de una ópera vivaldiana. Estamos ante una obra en cuyas páginas se atesoran, con sorprendente capacidad de concentración, los más señalados virtuosismos propios del ingenio carpentieriano.

Letters from Filadelfia

Autor: Rodrigo Lazo

Número de Páginas: 400

For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism. The first book-length study of Philadelphia publications by intellectuals such as Vicente Rocafuerte, José María Heredia, Manuel Torres, Juan Germán Roscio, and Servando Teresa de Mier, Letters from Filadelfia offers an approach to discussing their work as part of early Latino literature and the way in which it connects to the United States and other parts of the Americas. Lazo’s book is an important contribution to the complex history of the United States’ first capital. More than the foundation for the U.S. nation-state, Philadelphia reached far beyond its city limits and, as considered here, suggests new ways to...

Hispanic Firsts

Autor: Nicolás Kanellos

Número de Páginas: 410

Profiles the most significant "firsts" achieved by Hispanics, from pre-Columbian times to the present. Includes 100 illustrations, a calendar of firsts and a fold-out timeline.

Aproximaciones a la narrativa femenina del diecinueve en Latinoamérica

Autor: Joan Torres-pou

Número de Páginas: 180

This Spanish-language monograph includes the writers: Lidaura Anzoategui de Campero; Rosa Duarte; Amelia Francasci; Maria Firmina dos Reis; Maria Amaparo Ruiz de Burton; Maria Mercedes Santacruz y Montalvo; Ramon Emeterio Betances; and Leonor Villegas de Magnon.

Internationalität nationaler Literaturen

Autor: Frank Seemann

Número de Páginas: 580

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Latino History And Culture

Autor: D.h. Figueredo

Número de Páginas: 340

You’re no idiot, of course. You know there are more people from Latin America living in the United States than ever before. And you’re aware that Latinos come from several countries, including Cuba, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. But you don’t have to south of the border to explore the rich Latino heritage. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Latino History and Culture offers an exhaustive exploration of all things Hispanic. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • The scoop on the difference between Nuyoricans, Chicanos, Cuban Americans, and more. • An overview of Latin-American history, including the Spanish conquest, colonization, and subsequent struggles for independence. • Stories behind famous and infamous personas, such as Simón Bolívar, César Romero, Benito Juárez, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Evita Perón. • Everything you need to know about Latino life north of the border, including politics, education, work, and entertainment.

Ambassadors of Culture

Autor: Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Número de Páginas: 322

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a vast network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, Kirsten Silva Gruesz proposes a major revision of the nineteenth-century U.S. canon and its historical contexts. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials and building on an innovative interpretation of poetry's cultural role, Ambassadors of Culture brings together scattered writings from the borderlands of California and the Southwest as well as the cosmopolitan exile centers of New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. It reads these productions in light of broader patterns of relations between the U.S. and Latin America, moving from the fraternal rhetoric of the Monroe Doctrine through the expansionist crisis of 1848 to the proto-imperialist 1880s. It shows how ''ambassadors of culture'' such as Whitman, Longfellow, and Bryant propagated ideas about Latin America and Latinos through their translations, travel writings, and poems. In addition to these well-known figures and their counterparts in the work of ...

A Brief History of the Caribbean

Autor: D. H. Figueredo , Frank Argote-freyre

Número de Páginas: 337

A Brief History of the Caribbean is an overview of the historical events that have taken place and shaped the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

En otra voz

Autor: Nicolás Kanellos

Número de Páginas: 1900

The product of hundreds of scholars collaborating with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program over ten years, this is the first Spanish-language anthology to bring together literature from the history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present. Included are scores of previously unknown pieces by authors of diverse classes and ethnic backgrounds such as Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and Puerto Rican. The most comprehensive literary collection of its type, this book spans more than three centuries and a broad range of genres. Organized chronologically into three sections that represent the three major experiences of Latinos in the United States—Native, Exile and Immigration—this volume also includes oral tradition such as folk songs, personal experience narratives and even rhymes. It contains the political essays of revolutionaries and reactionaries, cultural elites and workers, academic creative writers and street poets, all reflecting the Hispanic condition from colonial times to the present day. Works by well-known names—Reinaldo Arenas, René Marqués, Cherríe Moraga, Dolores Prida, Piri Thomas and Luis Valdez—are...

Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas

Autor: Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México. Instituto De Investigaciones Estéticas

Número de Páginas: 556

Literatura hispanoamericana: La Colonia. Cien años de república

Número de Páginas: 526

Cuadernos americanos

Autor: Jesús Silva Herzog

Número de Páginas: 244

Nineteenth-century Literature

Número de Páginas: 640

Contains articles which focus on a broad spectrum of significant figures in fiction, philosophy, and criticism such as Austen, Carlyle, Dickens,Thackeray, the Brontes, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James.

Spanish-language Newspapers in New Mexico, 1834-1958

Autor: Anthony Gabriel MelŽndez

Número de Páginas: 292

For more than a century, Mexican American journalists used their presses to voice socio-historical concerns and to represent themselves as a determinant group of communities in Nuevo MŽxico, a particularly resilient corner of the Chicano homeland. This book draws on exhaustive archival research to review the history of newspapers in these communities from the arrival of the first press in the region to publication of the last edition of Santa FeÕs El Nuevo Mexicano. Gabriel MelŽndez details the education and formation of a generation of Spanish-language journalists who were instrumental in creating a culture of print in nativo communities. He then offers in-depth cultural and literary analyses of the texts produced by los periodiqueros, establishing them thematically as precursors of the Chicano literary and political movements of the 1960s and Õ70s. Moving beyond a simple effort to reinscribe Nuevomexicanos into history, MelŽndez views these newspapers as cultural productions and the work of the editors as an organized movement against cultural erasure amid the massive influx of easterners to the Southwest. Readers will find a wealth of information in this book. But more...

Feminism, Nation and Myth

Autor: Rolando Romero , Amanda Nolacea Harris

Número de Páginas: 204

Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism. This volume originated in the 1999 "U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on la Malinche" conference that brought together scholars from across the nation. Filmmaker Dan Banda interviewed many of the presenters for his documentary, Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico. Contributors include Alfred Arteaga, Antonia Castañeda, Debra Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Deena González, María Herrera Sobek, Guisela Latorre, Luis Leal, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Amanda Nolacea Harris, Rolando J....